The Art — and Ordeals — of Showing Tattoos in TV and Movies

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The Art — and Ordeals — of Showing Tattoos in TV and Movies
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Actors such as 'Pam & Tommy's Sebastian Stan undergo hours-long fake ink applications, while talent like Harry Styles and Pete Davidson cover up real tattoos amid legal concerns over copyright.

needed tattoos — lots of them. Thirty-five, to be exact. To pull it off, he went to special effects house Autonomous FX before shooting and had his body scanned and measured; he was then covered in plastic wrap as tattoo designers sketched onto his arms, back and torso. The artists then cut out the images, fully designed them in Photoshop, printed them onto decal paper and, after two hours in the makeup trailer, Stan, tattoo-less in real life, was transformed into a sleeved rocker.

The actor’s Lee makeover is the latest in Hollywood productions’ approach to showing tattoos, which has seen a surge in recent years as body art has become more mainstream. That means there is a greater call for tattoos onscreen to reflect contemporary culture and a greater chance actors will come in with their own tattoos. All of which places demands on makeup teams to put on ink — or cover it up.

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